David Attwell provides a welcome complication of the linear black literary history—literature as a reflection of the process of political emancipation—that is so often presented. He focuses on cultural transactions in a series of key moments and argues that black writers in South Africa have used print culture to map themselves onto modernity as contemporary subjects, to negotiate, counteract, reinvent, and recast their positioning within colonialism, apartheid, and the context of democracy.
David Attwell provides a welcome complication of the linear black literary history—literature as a reflection of the process of political emancipation—that is so often presented. He focuses on cultural transactions in a series of key moments and argues that black writers in South Africa have used print culture to map themselves onto modernity as contemporary subjects, to negotiate, counteract, reinvent, and recast their positioning within colonialism, apartheid, and the context of democracy.
Rewriting Modernity: Studies in Black South African Literary History
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ISBN-13: | 9780821417126 |
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Publisher: | Ohio University Press |
Publication date: | 07/26/2006 |
Edition description: | 1 |
Pages: | 248 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.60(d) |